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First Independent takes US rights to Edmond
Gary Rubin's FirstIndependent Pictures (FIP) has acquired all US and Canadian rights to Edmond, the all-star screen adaptation of David Mamet's picaresquetale of self-discovery.Wild Bunch has international rights on the project, which recently wrapped and is directed byStuart Gordon. In Berlin the film was sold to Tartan Films for the ...
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MPAA hires new corporate communications vp
Kori Bernards has been appointed vice president ofcorporate communications at the Motion Picture Association of America and willbe based in the company's Encino offices.Bernards mostrecently served as senior advisor to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and alsoworked as communications director for the Democratic Congressional CampaignCommittee.A publicrelations veteran of more than 12 ...
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Shugrue's Envoy starts mission in Vietnam
Industry veteranJ Edward Shugrue has set his sights on developing the exhibition anddistribution circuit in Vietnam after announcing a new venture, Envoy MediaPartners, which aims to develop the entertainment business in underservedinternational markets.Shugrue, the former president of Loews Cineplex International and longtimepresident of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International, is partnered ...
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US comic Cho finishes her first fiction feature Bam Bam And Celeste
Salty Featuresand Cho Taussig Productions have wrapped principal photography on comedianMargaret Cho's first feature, Bam Bam And Celeste.Based on a screenplay by Cho and directed by her longtimecollaborator Lorene Machado, the picture stars Bruce Daniels, Alan Cumming,John Cho, Kathy Najimy, and Danny Hoch and follows two people on a road ...
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Twisted, Lions Gate follow Saw with Catacombs
Following onfrom the hugely successful 2004 horror hit Saw, Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Filmsannounced yesterday (Mar 1) that the first project in their nine-picture dealwill be called Catacombs.Principal photography is set to start in Bucharest,Romania, on Mar 7 on the project, which stars Shannyn Sossamon and Alecia Moore- aka ...
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Foreign films spent $267m in Ontario last year, says OMDC
Foreign-producedfeature films spent $267m (C$331m) in Ontario in 2004, a nearly 140% increaseover the previous year's $112m, according to numbers released Wednesday by theOntario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), the provincial agency thatadministers tax credits and local services. The increase isless a harbinger of things to come than an indication of ...
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Gordon leaves Stratus to focus on sole producing career
Mark Gordon is leavingStratus Film, the company he and Bob Yari co-founded in 2003, to focusexclusively on his producing career. Under the terms of theamicable split, Gordon and Yari will remain jointly involved in existingStratus projects that are in various stages of development and pre-production. These include The PaintedVeil starring ...
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The Ballad Of Jack And Rose
Dir/scr: Rebecca Miller. US. 2005. 111mins.An extremely emaciated Daniel Day-Lewis sets the tonefor Rebecca Miller's eerie family drama The Ballad Of Jack And Rose as aman who rails against the inhumane consumerist world while encroaching cancerforces him to push his teenage daughter into modern society.He's seething with anger and has ...
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SPAIN 3 March
Distributor Filmax is looking to benefit from the multipleOscar wins of Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. The film has alreadybeen seen by more than 1 million spectators in Spain, where it had earned Euros6.5m pre-Oscars after its fourth weekend, making it the highest-grossing ofEastwood's recent films to premiere in Spain. ...
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Von Trier drops the dead donkey
Lars Von Trier has bowed to pressure from animal rightsorganisations and cut scenes of a butchered donkey from his forthcoming Manderlay.Previously, actor John C. Reilly quit the set of the film in outrage at the killing.In a letter to the protesting animal rights organisationsvon Trier stated: "To have the dead ...
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Loews Cineplex gets Village's Riches
A further management shake-up at Village Cinemas International (VCI) has taken place with the announcement that Loews Cineplex International (LCI) has appointed Ian Riches as senior vice president, commencing May 1. Riches, formerly regional director - Europe for VCI based in the London office, will initially be working in Rome, ...
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Kinowelt acquires KirchMedia's 5,500-title library
Germany's Kinowelt has become the operator of the one ofEurope's largest film libraries with its acquisition of all of the theatricaland DVD rights to KirchMedia's 5,500-title back catalogue for the period untiland including 2012. The deal for the KirchMedia library, which includes 150previously acquired Kirch titles, boosts Kinowelt's film holdings ...
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Italy joins the digital cinema revolution
Italy is finally getting on the digital bandwagon. Nationalexhibitors association ANEC has announced that 50 Italian cinemas will investin digital projectors by the beginning of 2006.There are currently 11 digital projectors in Italy.Digitally-equipped cinemas include the avant-garde Arcadia multiplex nearMilan, which has two digital projectors, and Rome's Casa del Cinema, ...
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Cesar-winning director attacks French cinema circuits
GillesPorte, Cesar winning director of Quand La Mer Monte, has spoken outagainst major cinema circuits which have declined to program his film even inlight of its recent national awards. OnSunday, Quand La Mer Monte received the Cesar for best first film andbest actress for Yolande Moreau who is also the ...
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Oscar titles do box-office battle in Taiwan
All five Academy Best Picture nominees went head-to-head atthe Taiwan box office in February to benefit from media buzz during the awardseason. Clint Eastwood may have taken the Oscar home, but Taiwanaudiences are only interested in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. The Howard Hughes biopic is approaching $1min the capital after ...
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23 projects for Las Palmas co-prod market
Twenty-three feature film projects from across Europe havesigned up for the third annual EuroForum co-production market, held March 9-11during Spain's Las Palmas International Film Festival (March 4-12), which kicksoff tomorrow with Paul Weitz's inaugural film In Good Company.Fatih Akin's new comedy Soul Kitchen,bullfighters-in-training tale The Sweet Life from Spanishproducer-distributor Alta ...
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Hitch gets hooked up around Europe
Hitch gets a major push through Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) this weekend, with a raft of major debuts that includesAustralia, Germany and Russia on Mar 3, and the UK and Spain on Mar 4.The romantic comedy hasgrossed $6.1m and should receive a timely boost this weekend. Will Smith hasinternational appeal ...
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INTERNATIONAL 4 March
With a paltry 12% loss week-on-week Japanese animated smash Howl'sMoving Castle passed the $200m mark at the international box office overthe weekend. Over $170m of this has come from Japan with strong support fromSouth Korea and France.After seven weeks in France 1.2 million people have seen thefilm providing an $9m ...
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VIP media fund backs Kapur's Water
Shekhar Kapur has tied up with Europe's VIP Media Fund, toco-produce and distribute his films. The first two films announced as part of this collaborationare: Paani (Water) being produced and directed by Kapur and renownedauthor Deepak Chopra under the banner of their company INTENT, and Buddhabeing produced by Kapur and ...
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Ruby Dee takes lead in New Zealand's Number 2
Filming began yesterday (Thursday March 3) on New Zealandcomedy/drama Number 2 after last month's false start due to the death ofOssie Davis, husband of the film's lead Ruby Dee. The acting pair (pictured), have been passionate advocatesof social and racial justice. They were key players in the 1963 March onWashington ...